Breitbart’s Ghost: Obama Hung Out With Commies Like Studs Terkel

Well, this is just a terrible disappointment. After all our excited yammerings on what goods the prematurely late American blogger Andrew Breitbart might have got on Our Obammerz, it seems the best Sir Breitbart could come up with was … he sat on a panel with Communists like beloved, Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian and author Studs Terkel. I mean, just listen at the titles of Terkel’s best-selling “books,” and you can see the type of anti-American pinko slut he was: The Great War, My American Century, Giants of Jazz, Working. (To be fair to Breitbart, though, Terkel also wrote Race: What Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession, and that does have a certain Kenyan Mau-Mau anti-colonialist ring.)
So that’s how non-insane people know Terkel, but how does Breitbart know Terkel? Would it surprise you, “differently”? Here is a Thing, that Breitbart “wrote,” as an explainer of the Dastardly Villainism of Obama copanelist Terkel, at some panel they were both on, in the ’90s:

Studs Terkel: A sponsor of the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace in 1949, which was arranged by a Communist Party USA front organization known as the National Council of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions.

Yep, that’s what he was famous for. And what does Breitbart make of this Red (guilt by) association?

The reason that Obama’s Alinskyite past, and his many appearances in political photography and video from the 1990s, are conspicuously missing from the national dialogue is that State Senator Barack Obama’s reinvention as a reasonable and moderate Democratic politician could not withstand scrutiny of his political life.

Because the mainstream media did not explore his roots, the American public remains largely ignorant of the degree to which Obama’s work with ACORN and his love of Alinsky were symbolic of his true political will.

We would explain this more but does anyone besides K-Lo at all care? Your editrix is actually kind of saddened (on the real) that this is Breitbart’s legacy; you can’t even edit that shit into a terrible libel! Mr. Breitbart, we expected better — something a little more long-knives “Rules for Radicals” — as your screamy shrieky swan song.

Apparently the turning point in his life was the fact that the entire media conspired with Bill Clinton to cover up his affair in the White House. He decided then and there to present the truth to the American people. By lying, editing video and audio tapes, and by enlisting every C- and D-list rightwing fucktard to promote his idiocy.

Just as our Founders intended.

Doktor Zoom

Wait, you mean to say Clinton had an affair in the White House? I am shocked to hear this previously covered-up news!

Generation[redacted]

Lies. I won't believe it until the liberal media reports on it.

Callyson

He's starting to kill me with boredom.

Biel_ze_Bubba

I think the conflict between his intellect and his soul escalated into a knife fight … and they both died.

RavenRant

There is a flaw in your theory: No intellect, no soul.

Perhaps the knife fight was between his ego and his incoherent rage?

http://loljazzcatz.blogspot.com/ Chet Kincaid

Oh Barb, I wish I could quit yew!

Barb

Please, don't quit me.

http://loljazzcatz.blogspot.com/ Chet Kincaid

Never!

Veritas78

Actually, the death certificate says "consumed by hate."

orygoon

If his 15 minutes doesn't run out soon, we sure will.

Beowoof

Naw, when Andy got bored he just had another drink and made up some shit to start another firestorm.

Negropolis

He had an attack of conscience.

Nah.

Slim_Pickins

No he was smote by a vengeful god.

extreme_left

barb for prez!

chascates

Mike Royko libel!

PrimlyStable

If Obama's "true political will" is Marxist/Leninist, how come he hasn't done anything remotely left wing in the past three years?

Chichikovovich

He's lulling the Republicans into a false true sense of security.

horsedreamer_1

I see you subscribe to Wayne La Pierre's Reynolds Wrap.

arihaya

true story: wingnuts, for example NRA, said that this is just a plot to give him a second term. And then after that Obama will confiscate guns from all white men and force their women to watch his enormous ICBM

Veritas78

I don't think any force will be required. My guess is they would be excited to see an actual launch, for a change.

Generation[redacted]

And as any insecure white woman will tell you, Michelle is going to seduce their men and steal them away (at least that's what we fantasize).

HistoriCat

Great! Line forms to the left – no pushing, no shoving.

e_z

As Admiral Ackbar is rumored to have said: " It's a trap "!

Chichikovovich

Or: "It's a TARP!"

Barrelhse

"Nutz!"

croney1

I can't believed that republicans aren't doing backflips over President O.; he is about the closest thing to a moderate republican as they could want.

MissNancyPriss

except for the whole "black thing"

RavenRant

And the "Moderate Republicans are exactly the same as Marxists/Leninists/Stalinists" problem.

Negropolis

It's crazy. Every time I hear them scream "socialist!" all I can think about is his crown jewel: healthcare. Damn-near the entire bill are things Republicans have proposed over time. The very idea of a mandate, the central feature of the bill, is a "personal responsibility" Republican talking point. About the only major thing remotely Democratic about it is that the industry must pick up high-risk buyers.

BerkeleyBear

And cover children until 25, and actually spend 80 cents on the dollar on care, and not make individuals pay out of pocket for preventative care. But yeah, a lot of the package has been trumpeted by the GOP at one point or another. Although now they say they only did that to prevent really horrible Dem ideas like single payer – they didn't actually mean what they were saying.

TheMightyHaltor

Right. Notice McCain didn't say shit about "Romneycare" in the 2008 primary. That's because almost all Republicans loved Romneycare until Obama adopted a similar stance. If Obama came out in support of the Defense of Marriage Act tomorrow, I'd half expect Utah to legalize gay marriage by Friday. As infuriating as Obama capitulations are sometimes, he's painted the GOP into a very tight corner of crazy that'll be hard to escape.

MissNancyPriss

and that the president is black

RavenRant

Half-white, half canine. All Muslin.

redarmyzombie

And mulatto, apparently.

RavenRant

Yes. Our opponents' racial terminology is state of the art. 1865 style.

Negropolis

The fucker's a veritable shape-shifter, he is. Islamic Indonesian one day, practicing Kenyan Muslim the next, godless atheist the next, cut-throat black Chicagoan the next, Communist the next, and the list goes on.

RavenRant

And manages to be a wimp and a thug at the same time.

http://www.wonkette.com ManchuCandidate

Couldn't Bitpart have worked in the Reverse Vampires and the Rand Corp into this conspiracy somewhere?

memzilla

Like the Confederacy, Breitfart Died of a Theory. Bury him next to Joe McCarthy and Jeff Davis, they'll be keeping each other company in Hell.

SorosBot

"Because the mainstream media did not explore his roots"

Really, man whose death has made the country a much better place? Really? Remember the fake controversies about Rev. Wright or Bill Ayers? Remember the countless stupid analyses of Obama's upbringing, his time as a community organizer, etc, etc,? Obama in 2008 faced more inquiries into his roots than any other presidential candidate, by far.

Chichikovovich

Remember when the journalist flew out to Indonesia to investigate whether Obama's childhood school was really a radical madrassa as some lunatics were claiming or just the completely ordinary secular school it turned out to be? That was part of the roots non-examining.

horsedreamer_1

Secular? I thought it was a Jesuit school.

CessnaDriver

They took non-catholic kids and taught a non-religious curriculum. The poor catholic kids got the shaft with extra classes.

http://dismalpseudoscientist.wordpress.com Deportably_Jose

I'm surprised the Catholics put up with that flagrant violation of their freedom of religion.

horsedreamer_1

They were… Scared of Barack-a. & all his Sharia.

CessnaDriver

They took in the students to make money.

TheMightyHaltor

That explains why there aren't many Catholics in Indonesia.

SorosBot

Yeah, but investigating the fucking grade school a candidate attended is just so routine in our elections. Right? They should have dug harder and looked at his kindergarten.

Chichikovovich

And they didn't even track down the tapes from his mother's transvaginal ultrasounds.

http://zvibleindmeis.tumblr.com/ Spurning Beer

I'm recalling the widespread attention to the drunk driving arrest history of another candidate. Can't remember his initial….

Chichikovovich

Is that the same candidate who never gave an explanation of apparently going AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard during a war? But as I recall the whole unexplained-to-this-day episode was completely irrelevant because Dan Rather got fooled by some forged documents.—

Generation[redacted]

And that taught us NOT to look into his past, because they will destroy you if you try.

CessnaDriver

Then there was the spectacularly deep and through investigation into the murder of Michael Dutton Douglas.

RavenRant

I'm sure if a teenaged Michelle had wasted some dood in a car, Not-so-Breitbart and his ilk would have taken the high road, doncha think?

All that picture proves is that Obama was an early member of the Trilateral Commission.

http://loljazzcatz.blogspot.com/ Chet Kincaid

hahaha

SorosBot

My god, he's using the enviro-socialist green transportation; real 'Mericans would have used a gas-guzzling go-kart!

Doktor Zoom

You know what I think is odd about that tricycle? Those little triangular projections over the front wheel. They look very space-age, but have no actual function–there's no fender there.

Somehow, this seems like some kind of metaphor about Breitbart's media empire, but I'm not quite sure…

CessnaDriver

I am sooo glad that no pics exist of me riding a tricycle.

mayor_quimby

I've got a burn-first photo album at my parents' house for just such an occasion.
Baths, pinatas, crying at birthday parties, prom – they've all gotta go!

Negropolis

And, here I was thinking he was a Kenyan-Somali pirate.

Dudleydidwrong

He's driving one of those foreign British Morgan tricycles instead of a good NASCAR four-wheeler. No wonder he bailed out the British car industry…Oh, wait…

redarmyzombie

D'AAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!

Biel_ze_Bubba

If an inquiry doesn't find that he's a Kenyan-born Muslin socialist nazi, it doesn't count.

Doktor Zoom

If only the mainstream media had more closely scrutinized Obama's votes to legalize infanticide….

arihaya

isn't Obama's association with known British crackhead rocker Mick Jagger enough evidence to IMPEACH him !!??

Negropolis

I hear that Marian Robinson was holding a séance in the White House to congure up ole Amy Winehouse and Keith Richards.

What? Keith's not dead yet?

ShaveTheWhales

Hard to tell.

tessiee

Keef died somewhere around 1971, but he won't fall down until the drugs in his system wear off.

PrimlyStable

Next week's revelation: someone who took the same classes as Barry at Columbia had a Che Guevara poster on his bedroom wall.

Monsieur_Grumpe

His physical body has bit the dust but his assholeeness lives on.

edgydrifter

Fuck it. I'm glad Breitbart is dead. Dude was lame-ass trash.
There–I said it. It feels good to admit it.

BigRadio

He was a slut.

http://krisbunda.com/blog/index.php Designer_Rants

And a prostitute.

RavenRant

Only metaphorically. Nobody could be twisted enough to pay him for the real thing.

Negropolis

And I'm sure there are sex tapes out there of him, too.

RavenRant

Please, God, spare me the sight of them!

extreme_left

i'm glad he is gone, one less hysterical voice for more war.

rickmaci

Let it go my friend. You don't need the bad karma over the likes of him. Karma can be one very harsh beeotch, as he suddenly and most definitively learned.

redarmyzombie

You know, it occurred to me that while me may not have liked the man, he was still a human being on this earth with family and friends who loved him; so I think, in the interest of human dignity and respect, we should take this time, and hold a moment of silence.
…
Well, that should do it! Now, who wants to hear the one about Breitbart and the goat on Viagra?

Negropolis

But, like the mythical Hydra, the head will simply be replaced by another soon enough. Now, if Rush ends up losing his show, that would be a huge blow to this monster.

Generation[redacted]

My mother taught me to only speak good of the dead. Breitbart's dead. Good.

arihaya

I was expecting Breirtbart had a bombastic, earthshaking video of terrorist baby Obama playing rock-paper-scissor with his Muslin tranny nanny

Texan_Bulldog

Or of Michelle calling Mitch McConnell 'whitey'. Aw well….

102415

They didn't have time to edit it properly.

Biel_ze_Bubba

Now THAT's a change you can believe in.

memzilla

Say, you know who else accused his political opponents of being Commie Stooges… ?

horsedreamer_1

Lenin?

Schmannnity

Moe?

poncho_pilot

hes a man of the people but he's also a man?

BigRadio

Groucho?

102415

Nixon?

http://hong-kong-actresses.blogspot.com/ donner_froh

Rasputin?

Negropolis

Generalissimmo Francisco Franco?

http://whateveritisimagainstit.blogspot.com trampndirtdown

Chiang Kai-shek?

tessiee

John Birch?

tessiee

That birther troll who was in here last week and called us all "pinkos"?

The Bell System had to completely change the way the payphone worked after that book was published.

not that Dewey

I stole his urine test. Man, was that delicious.

Doktor Zoom

I have a battered copy of Steal This Book, signed by Hoffmann after he resurfaced. As he was autographing it, he said, "There ya go–now it's worth a hundred bucks!"

MRjonz

I once met Captain Beefheart, out at Ocean Beach in San Francisco in late December, 1975. Does that make me “Fast and Bulbous?”

Schmannnity

Even Glenn Beck would need two blackboards to explain this strained alleged commie witch hunt. I'm pretty sure Milton Friedman was friends with Studs Turkel too. Does that make Obama a Chicago-school conservative?

http://tonguepunch.insanejournal.com/ Andrew Drinker

Well, uh, yeah, kinda.

fishskicanoe

I get the impression that some of that U of Chicago smegma stuck to him.

JackObin

Studs Terkel was a great, erudite man known all over the world. Andrew Breitbart was an irrelavant worm.

emmelemm

Now being eaten by worms, if you will.

Veritas78

Not fast enough, though. Forgotten in 18 months, that's my bet.

iburl

"When you become part of something, in some way you count. It could be a march; it could be a rally, even a brief one. You're part of something, and you suddenly realize you count. To count is very important." – Studs Terkel

STOP RAPING PEOPLE!! – Andrew Breitbart

CessnaDriver

When the "in memorium" lists come out in December, he won't be on them.

http://www.southsidejohnny.com/ Jukesgrrl

A worm?!?! My God!! How can you say that!! The "Important American Actress" Patricia Heaton was "devastated" to learn of Breitbart's passing. She tweeted to her Tweatons (no shit, she calls her subscribers that), "Sobbed all the way to work this morning. My dear friend and fearless warrior Andrew Breitbart, has passed away. Can't stop crying."

She memorialized him in detail as "the shoulder to cry on, the coach who inspired, the leader who was fearless … He did everything with such aplomb, with such joie de vivre, with such a jolly chutzpah that can only come from someone who is both Jewish and Irish!" [Aren't some of them Democrats??]

To illustrate how inspirational her leader was, she then spent the weekend piling on Sandra Fluke. Some of her advice to the Georgetown student: "G-Gal: you’ve given yer folks great gift for Mother’s/Father’s Day! Got up in front of whole world & said I’m having tons of sex- pay 4 it!" and "Hey G-Town: stop buying toothpaste, soap, and shampoo! You'll save money, and no one will want to sleep with you!"

By this morning, she had followed Rushbo into Apologyville (one might expect inspired by ABC, the network that airs her sitcom). "Mea culpa! We have diff opinions but I was too flippant in my attempt at humor … I was not showing Christ's love [but] I am not backing down on my position." [Ackkk]

Having to put up with that mindless crap on a regular basis is probably what drove her co-star on Everybody Loves Raymond, the great actor and suspected leftist Peter Boyle, into HIS early grave.

RavenRant

This 'Happy Warrior' crap is aggravating. Not a warrior of any kind, just a gutless, twink chickenhawk like 99% of the 'macho' right.

I guess Marcus is a 'Happy Warrior', too. Do not get in his way at the Bloomie's sale rack.

rickmaci

As soon as Limpbow's sponsors pull the plug on him, well, let's just say it will be time to look at other places, such as ABC/Disney, where a little citizen/consumer activism can have an impact.

tessiee

She's a shitty actress, too.

http://sickrantorum.com KenLayIsAlive

"I was not showing Christ's love" And never will.

Get these scumbags out of here.

proudgrampa

Crap. Does anyone even care about Commies anymore?

Texan_Bulldog

No, because they're all white.

BigRadio

Russ, Innanity and Levine are fucking obsessed with them. And that Alinsky guy I never heard of before they started using his techniques a few years ago. Commies, negroes, jews, atheists, socialists, moose limbs, liberals, hippies, immigrants, gheys, anti-Miitary-Industrial-Socialist Complex types, teachers, unions, poors, greens, gun controllers, sluts, blah, blah, blah.

http://krisbunda.com/blog/index.php Designer_Rants

"Leftists". Don't forget the leftists. Rush blamed them for his problems today, because they are the only ones who try to boycott sponsors.

Doktor Zoom

Are you sure? I thought we were supposed to be studying Alinsky obsessively at every cell meeting, at least when we're not chanting "Death To America!" and bowing to graven images of Mao and Hugo Chavez…

102415

Yes.

memzilla

Many Guatemalans, Costa Ricans, Salvadoreans, et al. have names like "Ivan" and "Olga" precisely because their parents were intentionally mocking the imperialist anti-communist policies of us Norteños.

Google any Russian first name and any Spanish surname, you'll see what I mean.

tessiee

Just tried it, with the first two names that came to mind.
I have no earthly idea who Ivan Sanchez is, but he is one gorgeous piece of ass.

http://sickrantorum.com KenLayIsAlive

Then you'll be glad to know that he was the originator of the Dirty Sanchez.

Slim_Pickins

Well the Soviet Union is still our #1 enemy in some quarters.

mayor_quimby

Meh, I think the only reason we care about the only ones left is we want their beaches.

proudgrampa

You have a point, Mayor. I have been reading a lot about the beaches of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua, etc., from Ayn Rand fans who want to establish their own Galt Gulches.

horsedreamer_1

Was Studs a native of Turkmeni-meni-meni-Stan-Stan?

http://tonguepunch.insanejournal.com/ Andrew Drinker

No, Blitz.

yyyaz

What an appropriate and sad epitaph — another feces-slinger's life turns out to have been unworthy of examination.

HogeyeGrex

Between this, his last non-apology tweet, and this charming episode, I think one can fairly well understand the totality of his being.

studs terkel was a wonder and i still miss his voice rasping from my radio.

barack obama sat on a panel with other people who 'thought about things' in conjunction with a theatrical production in a large city with a vibrant arts community. panels of 'people with thoughts' and 'the exchange of ideas' and cross arts pollination are what civilizations do.

not that i would expect wingtards to understand any of that.

Doktor Zoom

"Sitting on a panel" is not something that Good Americans do, particularly in relation to the "arts." It reeks of elitism and arrogance. It reeks of conspiracy.

Good Americans sit at home and watch TV. They do not "sit on panels."

http://krisbunda.com/blog/index.php Designer_Rants

Obama. What a fuckin' PANEL SNOB!

Biel_ze_Bubba

… or "think about things."

http://loljazzcatz.blogspot.com/ Chet Kincaid

Jesus Christ, he goes on about this event as if it took place in Moscow in 1983! You couldn't even get the bluest-blooded, Tribune-reading Oligarch in Winetka to get upset about the heinous conspiracies hatched at this thing. You might even get a tax-free contribution.

fuflans

you know, my folks are in winnetka and my dad voted for bamz and says he's going to again.

(my mother is canadian so she doesn't count.)

also it was a POST SHOW DISCUSSION at a black box theatre on 16th and halsted. they were all probably just trying to get gary houston's autograph.

http://loljazzcatz.blogspot.com/ Chet Kincaid

Speaking of the North Shore, one of Mrs. Kincaid and I's favorite passtimes is gawking at rich people's houses on Sheridan Road while driving to Ravinia, when there is somebody not-dead-boring playing there. We even took a European friend of ours on the tour, and got out of our car and walked up the driveway of some wealthy family and took pictures. Their security was probably too bemused to release the dobermans or whatever.

not that Dewey

My grandmother lived in the Jewish enclave in Glencoe, where I spent many summers as a kid. She would take me joy-riding to Kenilworth so she could empty her car ashtray on their "anti-semitic streets". Good times.

Doktor Zoom

"Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.

–ST

http://whateveritisimagainstit.blogspot.com trampndirtdown

Free exchange of ideas.. hmmm sounds Soshulaist too me. Also.

rickmaci

If God had wanted us to have ideas he wouldn't have given us the Bible.

tessiee

"panels of 'people with thoughts' and 'the exchange of ideas' and cross arts pollination are what civilizations do."

Folks in Candyland like their morals simple. When you live in constant fear of being struck by a stray thought, because 80% of thoughts in this century might contradict your childish belief system, your worldview gets very small, very quickly.

Biel_ze_Bubba

"cross arts pollination" sounds like an abomination — something that Santorum would really hate. If you force taxpayers to subsidize cross arts pollination, the next thing you know, you'll have legalized art-dog cross-pollination.

cheetojeebus

Andrew Breitbart, Worm farmer extraordinaire.

Barrelhse

Multi-tasking as a daisy-pusher, too!

http://krisbunda.com/blog/index.php Designer_Rants

Rot In Pieces.

fuflans

i was thinking more matthew hopkins, witchfinder.

arihaya

a random gay bar in Manhattan has more active member than Communist Party USA

why the fuck did they still use it for boogeyman

poncho_pilot

i guess the R word is still a no no but it was a valid answer to your question.

today we are all deleted by the administrator.

RavenRant

I got deleted for posting an adorable picture of child Barack dressed as a pirate. Mysterious.

Gunner Asch

If we guess the secret delete-word does the duck drop? Do we win a prize?

RavenRant

The closest we get to prizes are particularly artistic Blingees or alt-texts. Sometimes someone will be awarded a 'Comment of the Day', but I don't think it actually comes with a prize or $$$.

The America-hater was also in "Eight Men Out" directed by John Sayles, who also directed "Matewan", which was about a union, and it suggested that a West Virginia coal mining company job creator would treat its workers badly.

PuckStopsHere

If I learned that Saul Alinsky had a bit part in "Matewan" like Terkel did in "Eight Men Out", I would not bat an eye. And let us not forget how badly Sayles treated job-creator Chas Comisky (ironically referred to as "Commie" from time to time in the dialogue) in that baseball flick. Flat champagne, niggling Cicotte out of his bonus, etc. Does Sayles hang out with Obama?

Chichikovovich

And the way Sayles treated job creator Arnold Rothstein was even worse.—

Barrelhse

They included the Reds!!1

DustBowlBlues

OT: WTF? Has Keith O thrown another tantrum? I miss all the news that doesn't count.

http://krisbunda.com/blog/index.php Designer_Rants

Rush will not get all the attention.

BarackMyWorld

He's apparently got the night off so he can anchor Current TV's 3-hour Super Tuesday coverage tomorrow.

Negropolis

I'll admit I'm shallow when it comes to television. I refuse to go north of 64, and Current is way the hell up at one-hundred-and-fucking-somthing. Not even for my Jenni; boy do I miss her.

http://tonguepunch.insanejournal.com/ Andrew Drinker

Dammit, I was really looking forward to an old third generation Betamax video of Obamer snorting North Vietnamese cocaine with Jane Fonda!

Antispandex

Studs. Just another thing the right wing doesn't have.

HempDogbane

Can't wait until Studs is on Prairie Home Companion again. Maybe he'll mention this important revelation in one of his stories.

Blueb4sunrise

ummmmm…..

Selfish_T

Unfortunately there's a better chance of him brining it up with Saul Alinsky.

Schmegeg

Grandpa has gone away. Forever.

tessiee

Mommy and Daddy said he's staying with a nice family who lives on a farm.

Wow. I can't believe Pres O had him taken out over this. He must be way more sensitive about his panel sitting habits than I realized.

http://zvibleindmeis.tumblr.com/ Spurning Beer

Another job for Bobby Seal Team Six.

http://krisbunda.com/blog/index.php Designer_Rants

I imagine it went down like this: Obama shows up at Breitbart's trashed and stained apartment with an eightball of "primo" to "make amends". Breitbart's not about to turn down a party, even if it is with Obummer. He's partied with worse, like the lady who pushes a grocery cart around his neighborhood with no pants on, an hour ago.

Then Obama cuts out a Belushi across the giant mirror-on-egg-crates that is Breitbart's coffee table and only unbroken glass. Turns out? Rat poison, mostly. Breitbart gets so addled from the rodenticide that he stands up and shouts "Smell ya later!" and stumbles out into the street to do his favorite: Scream at people. He actually does pretty well, managing to travel several blocks on foot before collapsing. Thanks, Barry. You pick way worthier targets than the Clintons.

BarackMyWorld

This doesn't surprise me. Obama belongs to the same party as Franklin Roosevelt, who met with Josef Stalin several times. Commies, all of 'em…

That damn Thanksgiving picture of his has put a whole lot of therapist's kids through college.

Schmannnity

This is the surprise that was going to ensure that Obama was not reelected? Maybe Breitbart had a series of dementia-inducing mini strokes before his death. On the other hand, this is just the smoking gun evidence that Michael Savage was looking for.

Doktor Zoom

Really? We're demonizing Studs Goddamn Terkel now?

“I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence — providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.”

― Studs Terkel

Then again, I'm sure that, now and then, even Will Rogers took a dislike to somebody.

PuckStopsHere

Still glad the bastard is dead!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30500320@N06/ DerrickWildcat

Part of me is like, WTF? The other part of me is all like LOL!

102415

That is exactly how Breitbart got away with it for so long.

http://wonkette.com/ Sharkey

Whatever you do, don't make that your career.

Negropolis

And then Becky was like "OMG!" And I wa slike "I know, right?" And she was all like "STFU!" And I was all like "you're such a bitch, Becky."

The reason that Obama’s Alinskyite past, and his many appearances in political photography and video from the 1990s, are conspicuously missing from the national dialogue is that State Senator Barack Obama’s reinvention as a reasonable and moderate Democratic politician could not withstand scrutiny of his political life.

The writer of this stupidity is clearly a "RINO" since they went off script and used "Democratic politician".

Doktor Zoom

Saul Alinsky Bad! Aula Alinsky Bad! Alinskyite! Alinskyite! Being an aAliskyite is just the worst thing ever! We don't know what the hell an Alinskyite is, but it sounds foreign and scary and suspiciously Jewish, although some Jews are necessary to bring about the Rapture, so maybe we shouldn't play that part up….

Honestly, I would not even know who Alinsky was if it was not for the lunatic fringe constantly screaming about him.

Joshua Norton

OOOOHHHH COMMIES! SCAAARRRYY COMMIES!

1958 called, they want their meme back.

Mahousu

Andrew Breitbart, I knew Joe McCarthy.* Joe McCarthy was a friend of mine.** You, sir, are no Joe McCarthy.***

—
* Not true.
** Not true.
*** Not true.

Fukui-sanYesOta

You've got admit, Breitbart has/had out-wayback-machined Santorum. Santorum is all "whoah! abortion! contraception" but Breitbart managed to get all "whoah! the REDS!"

Actually, that just sucks. Sorry, dead guy, it just doesn't wash. What was your next exclusive? Just "mentioning" that there were a lot of Jews in the 1917 Russian revolution?

http://wonkette.com/ Sharkey

As a proponent of Studds, he really is cool.

http://hong-kong-actresses.blogspot.com/ donner_froh

Because the mainstream media did not explore his roots

Very true. If it hadn't been for the occasional dispatches from Radio Free Caracas, the articles in the US edition of the Mau Mau Times of Nairobi and the YouTube videos from the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television of Beijing I wouldn't have known anything about O'bama before I voted for him in 2008.

Limeylizzie

I saw Studs Terkel , in Chicago, with Garrison Keillor in a weird but wonderful couple of hours of them just talking and it was fabulous OTOH Breitbart was a pompous, bloated maniac.

ttommyunger

Also an asshole…..

Doktor Zoom

One of Studs Terkel's greatest achievements was his interview of CP Ellis, a former Klansman who renounced racism to work for racial justice. Of this story, Terkel said, "Anybody can be redeemed. I've seen it."

One of Andrew Breitbart's greatest achievements was his smear of Shirley Sherrod, whose tale of overcoming her own biases Breitbart framed as an act of racism. Even after the truth came out, there are still plenty of Breitbart admirers who remain convinced that Sherrod is a racist.

not that Dewey

And that Breitbart was not.

Doktor Zoom

Only the blacks are racist these days, my friend. The NAACP is the last bastion of organized racism in America.

EDIT: Also, food stamp president.

not that Dewey

The commenters over at Breitbarts are claiming that the whole slut thing is a distraction, and that they should be focused on the real problem, namely foodstamps.

Doktor Zoom

Yeah, who was the commie who brought up contraception as an issue, anyway?

Ya know, I had a similar reaction. Not sure why this really set me off, given all the other crap this shithole , et al. has squirted out. I just thought DO NOT fuck with the legacy of Studs Terkel.

Doktor Zoom

Agreed. It's a potent mix of signifiers–one of the sleaziest liars on the right attacking the reputation of one of the most humane, thoughtful, big-hearted figures of the left. (And yes, there's a degree of nostalgia for the days when America really had a left.)

Can anyone imagine some future book review praising some promising new writer for having the "decency and intellect of an Andrew Breitbart"?

I don't care much (or know much) about Terkel's politics. All I know is that he did a hell of a job portraying individual humans as individual humans, and doing it, as you mentioned, thoughtfully. That's really hard to do. I can't do it. Mass media can't do it. We all get ground up and averaged in the mass culture grinder, but Terkel seemed to treat his subjects with dignity and individual care. I really admire that.

Doktor Zoom

Absolutely right–and a good excuse to cut and paste another Terkel quotation:

“What I bring to the interview is respect. The person recognizes that you respect them because you're listening. Because you're listening, they feel good about talking to you. When someone tells me a thing that happened, what do I feel inside? I want to get the story out. It's for the person who reads it to have the feeling . . . In most cases the person I encounter is not a celebrity; rather the ordinary person. "Ordinary" is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things."

― Touch and Go: A Memoir

fuflans

you're quoting all my favorites.

user-of-owls

There would be more than a little poetic justice if one the steelworkers or stevedores Studs interviewed took a long piece of metal pipe to one of this festering, bloated fucking corpse's acolytes.

http://sickrantorum.com KenLayIsAlive

Can it be James O'Keefe please? I imagine his skull flies off that flimsy neck looks like a Barry Bonds playing tee-ball.

Blueb4sunrise

Now I'm getting all moooshy. I think Kurt was the only public figure who's death brought me to tears.

Come to think of it, I'll bet I read Working and Breakfast of Champions the same year.

DoktorThompson

Don't worry about him. Kurt is up in Heaven now.

fuflans

you know all this nonsense today reminded me that studs died like four days before obama's election.

MilwaukeeKent

Wow, this a fun game! I bet you could build a more solid "connect-the-dots" case for damned near every Neo-Con who waltzed us into the Iraq War 9 years ago and are itching to have us attack Iran today. Easy Pie!

Negropolis

Who is this Studs Urkel?

I'm honestly not sure why the right keeps going on with these attacks. I mean, what decade do they think we're in that simply flinging a word like "communist" around like a slur has the same effect as it did in the 50's?

Doktor Zoom

Maybe they figure it's safer than calling women sluts…

Geminisunmars

They are desperately searching for something to work. And they got such good traction with commie for a wonderfully long time. Such a nice, simple, word that got the hate juices going lickety-splitch.

Negropolis

Yeah a word that gets their hates juices going. Truth is, my generation (20-somethings) doesn't even know what communism really is. We haven't seen it work on the same scale as it did during the Cold War. It was never an existential threat to us or anyone else; hell, beyond some blah, blah, blah shit about the Berlin Wall, we didn't even really learn about communism in high school. I know that we're a small part of the electorate, but they have to realize this is having diminishing returns.

Doktor Zoom

It's not necessary to have any direct knowledge of a group to fear them. In fact, sometimes a near-total lack of knowledge can be whipped up into a good 3-minutes' Hate. A while back, for instance, there was a wave of antisemitism in Japan.

Negropolis

I'm not saying that you have to know something to hate it, but I'm telling you that unless you know it, it simply doesn't have the same sting. The few kids still throwing around "commie" as a slur use it as a lesser, secondary slur. You know it's an insult, but you really don't know why.

Geminisunmars

Well, they are getting pretty good use out of “terrorist/muslim”, but somehow it lacks the infiltrating quality that a Russkie mole had. I wish your generation Goddess speed.

proudgrampa

I think you have a point. If you throw enough shit at a wall, some of it eventually sticks.

orygoon

Why is this librarian not surprised to see that Mr. Breitbart was an effing illiterate?

fuflans

wow a librarian that is so cool.

rather recently, i said to mr fuflans, 'i wish have been a librarian. and not an actor.'

orygoon

Is there really a difference, you think?

fuflans

well, i sincerely hope you get paid more regularly.

orygoon

Meh. The pay is in roots and berries, today the entire surrounding town mobbed the college library where I work because the power is out all around us (but not here), we don't make them STFU any more but instead hand out cheap earplugs, and we don't even try to keep them from bringing in pizzas and banquets (well, their version of banquets.) I saw a guy with a Pepsi bottle, shaking it up prior to opening it. I need a knuckle-smacking ruler, a megaphone, and Power. Or an inheritance.

CessnaDriver

The reich wing is convinced that snotfart was murdered.

Apparently, Mossad has found a way to poison rentboy semen.

Drugston Blimpblob III made it through the weekend, so he must not have gone to his usual "fishing resort" in the DR.

http://sickrantorum.com KenLayIsAlive

Who got that job? I begged to do it, but I guess they found someone more deserving? I sent my hit man resume straight to the CPUSA. Did no one receive it? WTF.

Slim_Pickins

What does "fellow historian" Newt Gingrich have to say about Studs? It would seem that they are fellow travelers, at least in some circles.

user-of-owls

So, Breitbart once man-groped Riley, and Riley worked for Wonkette, and the commenters at Wonkette…

Doktor Zoom

…are living the life of Riley?

Fukui-sanYesOta

Top work, sir. I was going with "enjoy buttsechs" but yours is far better.

user-of-owls

Homosexual Atheist Communists you dummies. Jeez, can't you knuckleheads follow a simple connect-the-dots guilt by association character assassination?! You people.

*shakes head*

anniegetyerfun

Today, we are all-

Oh, wait, I guess that was your point.

Slim_Pickins

Studs lived to what 96? Badbreath not so long… Which one might have been smote by a divinity?

iburl

If "smote by a divinity" is code talk for "O.D.'d by a tranny hooker", the answer is Breitbart.

http://loljazzcatz.blogspot.com/ Chet Kincaid

"Ruushhh…!!! Ruuuushhh!! It is I, Breitbart!! And now I wear the chain I forged in liiiiife!!! Behaaaaave yourself!!!"

iburl

Stop Raaaaaaaaping the public airwaaaaaaaaves!!!!

Doktor Zoom

"You may be an undigested bit of Dominican rentboy, a blot of frothy lube, a crumb of Viagra, a fragment of underdone Oxycontin. There's more of santorum than of saint about you, whatever you are!”

http://loljazzcatz.blogspot.com/ Chet Kincaid

Oh God, I can hear him saying that.

C_R_Eature

I just love this. Dickens. indeed.

Local_Mojo

Studs Terkel? Thin Mints?

Why do the Republicans hate America?

Barb

Snagged me some Girl Scout cookies today. It's good livin'.

http://hong-kong-actresses.blogspot.com/ donner_froh

The strangest thing about Brietbart's scoop from beyond the grave is that if anyone wanted to talk to Studs Terkel, have a picture taken with him or buy him a drink it was only necessary to walk up to the guy and introduce yourself.

From what I knew of the old coot he was one of the least pretentious semi-famous people in Chicago.

Wouldn't you? How could any of the actors keep a straight face during the production of that "film"?

user-of-owls

Production? Hell, I'd have been howling with laughter as soon as the guy at the audition said, "Hi, I'm the producer of this film. Name's Estus W. Pirkle."

Angry_Marmot

I shook hands with Studs Terkel. What a slut.

C_R_Eature

OK, I actually visited the vaunted "New Big Government" website and read (as much as I could stand) of Andrew Breitbart's Great last Hurrah. It's one of the saddest, craziest, most irrelevant things I've seen in print in a very long time. It's abundantly clear to me that the modern Conservative movement, after 30-odd years is well on it's way to tearing itself to pieces in a paroxysm of fear, incompetence, ideological purity and rage.
Oddly, this is all I could think of after seeing that:

This is the way the Right Wing Ends
This is the way the Right Wing Ends
This is the way the Right Wing Ends
Not with a Bang, but with a Wanker.

Like I'm going to tell a man who commands SEAL Team Six that I've joined his wife and "I'm in." That would be the last thing I'd do if I "joined" Michelle.

barto

Partly because of the fact that Breitbart and I share a name (I'm more commonly referred to as "stupid Bart", alas), I am also quite saddened/disappointed by this anemic exposee. Couldn't there have been at least some sort of wacked witnesses, sexytime with white women, or something with some meat on it, for Christ's sake?

Oh, the harder they come…

Steverino247

This just in…

Breitbart's coffin will have holes drilled into it.

So the worms can crawl out to puke.

Geminisunmars

J Edgar?

tessiee

Andy boy is Healous Jealous because the man's name was Studs. STUDS, for god's sake!

Manhattan123

There are a bunch of angry maggots in a California cemetery right now saying, "What the hell? Even WE can't eat this despicable piece of shit."

http://sickrantorum.com KenLayIsAlive

They're probably drunk just by being in the coffin with him. His body probably ferments.

Sorry ass motherfucker. Even his legacy was all hype and no substance. And nobody's fuckin' surprised and nobody fucking cares. Bye again, you angry little pustule.

Gainsbourg69

According to Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, Breitbart fought the good fight and was a patriot who served his country. Except he didn't fight in any wars or held elected office.

DrunkIrishman

Breitbart stole the Blogspot logo.

C_R_Eature

When approached for comment on his grave insult to the beloved memory of Pulitzer Prize winning Author and Historian Studs Terkel, he said:
" *Gurgle* pppppppppttthhhh! *Gurgle*,*Gurgle* Hisssssssssss. "

Barrelhse

Happy Super Tuesday, everyone.

proudgrampa

You too, Barrel. The liquor cabinet is opening early today! Woohoo!

Negropolis

I'll be happy when it's over and the Romney-beast wins just enough primaries to be declared the "winner." You know, like how one of the surviving chicken in a cockfight is declared a "winner."

DahBoner

I thought it was Clinton who had a Monica Alinskyite past???

SaintRond

I've seen a lot of decent sorts exercise decorum in the wake of this degenerate, alcoholic narcissist's demise, but if you want to feel less guilt about taking a giant shit on his memory, which is no less than he deserves, just do a search on the "eulogy" he delivered in honor of Ted Kennedy's passing, made the very same day the Senator died.

Anyone know where that bloated cocksucker's been buried? If I happen to be passing through, maybe I'll pay a visit to his grave site and piss on it.

http://wonkette.com NorbertsRevenge

"Breitbart's Ghost: Obama Hung" — this is news?

SpiderCrab

Andrew Breitbart is the dead gift that keeps on giving.

smitallica

Studs Terkel? Your smoking gun is STUDS FUCKING TERKEL??

These assholes truly have nothing.

OneYieldRegular

Even for Andrew Breitbart, that's pretty breathtaking.

I can wait to read what he might have written about Will Rogers.

DocChaos

What I love about this shit, is that the wingnut axis of paranoia ( AM Radio, Fox News and the rightwing blogosphere) actually think the term "Alinskyite" resonates beyond the walls of their padded room. It would be like the left affixing "Randian" to every conservative politician and movement and expecting it to unnerve the average American.

prommie

I think Movement Conservatives woul consider every American alive in the 1930s and before to be a commie red pinko socialist. Only our forebears who live in their imagined history, as opposed to our actual history, are free from the taint.

http://sickrantorum.com KenLayIsAlive

the taint of history. Is that the spot between the two world wars or something?

http://sickrantorum.com KenLayIsAlive

Did I mention I'm glad he's dead? I was so happy when I saw that headline. Seriously.

I CAN HAZ TOXICOLOGY REPORT NAO?!!

James Michael Curley

I'll lay 5 to 1 that the Ghost of Tom Joad can kick ass on the Ghost of Andrew Brietbart.

http://sickrantorum.com KenLayIsAlive

Who do I have to fellate around here to poop on the corpse?

Nostrildamus

What a great week! First, Breitbart. And now (I say this as a former Disney employee) Robert Sherman.